72 New Emojis Are Coming—These 5 Didn’t Make the Cut

The Unicode Consortium just unveiled 72 new emojis that will be included in the upcoming Unicode 9.0 release, but we’re not here to talk about the winners. Instead, let’s take a look at the five poor emojis that will have to wait until at least next year to join the Unicode roster.

The five losers this year (or “First Candidates for 2017,” according to the UC) are the Face With One Eyebrow Raised (or “Colbert Emoji”), Fortune Cookie, Dumpling, Takeout Box, and Chopsticks. While I think that the Colbert Emoji definitely got a raw deal, I don’t think I’ll lose any sleep over the exclusion of… more